SpaceX is aiming to raise $75 billion when it goes public next week.
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Wall Street is going all out to sell SpaceX's record-breaking IPO.Elon Musk's rocket company kicked off its investor road show on Thursday with a major party at JPMorgan's New York HQ, with CEO Jamie Dimon interviewing Musk in front of 3,500 of the bank's top clients.The interview — which Musk tuned in for remotely — kicked off with Dimon effusively praising Musk as the "Edison of our time," and a special guest appearance from the billionaire's mother, Maye Musk.Musk's pitch to the thousands of investors watching leaned heavily on SpaceX's science-fiction ambitions.The world's richest man said that the monster IPO, which will begin next week and see SpaceX attempt to raise $75 billion at a roughly $1.75 trillion valuation, was necessary to provide the company with the capital to harness the power of the sun and ultimately colonize other planets.Musk speculated that SpaceX could even eventually branch out into the interplanetary hospitality business with "moon hotels.""I think it would be pretty cool if you could vacation on the moon," said the SpaceX founder, who also mused about the prospect of eventually terraforming Mars to make it habitable for humans.
